People complain all the time now about how our schools are declining and wonder why. Maybe a part of the reason is because our schools are becoming a place to make political statements not to educate our kids.

A group of San Francisco first-graders took an unusual field trip to City Hall on Friday to toss rose petals on their just-married lesbian teacher

Lets keep politics out of schools and instead spend that time teaching math and science! This political season has disabused me of the hope that my society will continue to respect me and my religious beliefs.

What type of America do we live in when this is how people are treat who you disagree with.

Nothing like liberals who preach peace and respect and tolerance for others and than treat those who disagree with them like this.

I find it interesting there are 24 senators who have a voting record of voting with their party lower then 86%

Of those 23 only 4 are democrats and the rest are republicans. That means that of those with the highest likelihood to vote against their party, 83% of them are republicans. Just an interesting fact.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/party-voters/

I found this an interesting read and additional agreements as to why Obama’s tax plan is really just more wealth redistributions and fostering a welfare state.

Highlights:

“Tax Foundation, says the number of nonpayers (non tax payers) would rise from a third of tax filers to 44%.”

“The Tax Policy Center estimates that the share of households not owing income tax would rise from 38% under current law to 48% under the Obama plan.”

“That's well over 60 million tax filers. Many, if not most, of these would probably qualify for at least one of the Obama credits, because it doesn't take much, other than low income, to qualify.”

“For one of those credits, dependent and child care, you don't even have to have a job. You can simply be looking for one. Taking college courses (and agreeing to 100 hours of community service) qualifies you for the "American opportunity credit."

The most expensive credit, "making work pay," is aimed at low-wage workers but will have to be phased out at higher income levels. As the Tax Policy Center notes, the resulting jump in marginal tax rates in the phaseout zone "might actually give workers an incentive to work less." “

Don’t tax the lower income, tax higher income more and give lower income people (who really are not paying taxes anyway) a tax credit (a credit higher income families cannot quality for).

Sounds like wealth redistribution to me. Something everyone from every political affiliation does not want (even lower income families don’t want it). Of course when you dress it up and make it out to be a tax break, who is not for that?

I think this is a case that shows how people (in this case the democrats) can be blinded of what is really going on because they liked the idea of getting affordable housing for all.